"So...... Your Excellency, you see, now that our economic income has completely suppressed the Mermaid Song, according to my opinion, we should be able to advertise a lot in the future, and attract more rich people to come to us to entrust work-"

"Starting tomorrow, all guild commissions will be free."

Before the poison needle could finish speaking, Norris suddenly issued the next guild operation policy.

Such a decision really made the poison needle a little confused, and he looked at his master with a pair of eyes full of doubts, and the look in those eyes showed an expression of suspicion that he had heard it wrong.

"That...... Your Excellency the Viscount? I beg your pardon, I seem to have been a little behind my ears lately...... That ......"

"You don't have the back of your ears, and I didn't say it wrong. Make an advertisement and go out, starting tomorrow, all the task commissions of our Honey Jar Guild will not charge a single iron coin commission fee. The offer lasts for up to one month, and the charges start again after one month. That's how you put the ad out. ”

The poison needle still had an expression of incomprehension.

But although he didn't understand, he knew very well that the expression on his master's face allowed him to ask a rhetorical question.

After thinking about it, he still didn't make any doubts and questions after all, but nodded seriously: "Yes, Your Excellency the Viscount." I'll make this ad as good as I want! Don't worry! ”

Seeing that although this poisonous needle is not very smart, but it is still a situation of directly following orders, Norris is a little angry. However, given that this guy's brain is really not very smart, and he likes to use some cleverness, Norris feels that he still needs to patch it -

"You have to remember that you are commissioning work for free. This ad isn't for you to talk about. You have to be genuinely in Pelican Town, desperately promoting this ad, and at the same time doing your best in the face of the work that comes to you, without any disgust or disgust. No matter what kind of commission, even if the mermaid song personally comes to commission the work, it must be treated with a professional working attitude and do our best to complete it. ”

It can be seen that there is some incomprehension on the face of the poisonous needle. But it doesn't matter, as long as the guy nods his head seriously, then it doesn't matter.

After saying this, Norris thought for a moment and added again: "By the way, although it is said that even if the mermaid song is commissioned, it must be helped to complete." But if the Mermaid Song raises tasks that are obviously problematic or even require you to die, you can't say no, be sure to move on. On the contrary, you must let me know this information as soon as possible. Well...... Also, not only in Mermaid Song, but also if you notice that some other townsfolk are suddenly coming up with some strange commissions that reveal a strange atmosphere that could put your lives in danger, let me know immediately. ”

For these, the poison needle still agreed. However, Norris could see that although he agreed, his expression was still full of strangeness and doubt.

Having your subordinates work with problems is obviously not a good mood at work. Norris decided to play some of his "gentleness" and smiled: "You have a problem? ”

Seeing his master's smile, Poison Needle thought about it, and decided to ask the question in his heart: "That...... Lord Viscount, the mission given by the Mermaid Song...... Are we all going to pick it up? What's in it for us to do this kind of task? ”

In this regard, the lord leaned back in his chair comfortably, continued to have a smile on his face, and said slowly: "Good? Hehe. ”

"As long as the Mermaid Song dares to make that kind of commission to us, then we will have a good show~~"

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Arrow knew that his troubles were far from over.

This kind of result is not difficult to predict, and it can even be said that from the very beginning, he had already thought that the appearance of this result was absolute.

Now, Arrow is very sure that this Honeypot Guild, that Viscount Norris must have received some kind of instruction from the capital, which will definitely allow him to kill his Mermaid Song at any cost.

Therefore, the honey jar will now sacrifice this kind of price war measure of killing 1,000 enemies and injuring 800 self-inflicted. Although it seems that it will only last for a month, I believe that even if it is charged after a month, it will definitely not be expensive. Looks like that Norris is completely here to bring himself down!

Sitting in the lounge area of the guild hall, watching Timber Daddy now tidy up the guild's bulletin board. The bulletin board was empty, let alone work, and even a fly would think it was too slippery to settle down.

Holding the tin fruit, it flapped its wings and flew down from the second floor and landed on the rest table.

While injecting magic into the fruit, she looked at the empty guild hall and said, "President Arrow, why don't we do it for free?" ”

Arrow smiled, noncommittal.

If you really fight a price war, your own financial resources are completely unrivaled by the lord behind the honey jar. If you really follow the other person's pace, then it's really the end of the game.

At this time, Brad also came back from running outside, he picked up a towel and wiped the sweat on his forehead, seeing Arrow's helpless appearance now, and thinking about the news of the honey pot working for free outside in the past two days, even if he was sluggish, he knew what his family would be worried about.

"President Arrow! Actually, I have an idea, I don't know if you can do it? ”

Brad walked up to Arrow and said with a sworn face—

"Didn't that honey jar say it was completely free? So how about we entrust them to work if we make mistakes? ”

When Parfay heard this, her little face turned blank, and she immediately flew up and stopped in front of the tip of Brad's nose, and reached out to point at his nose: "Silly big man, we are a rival guild!" What is this when we go to a rival guild? ”

Brad hurriedly shook his head and explained, "No, no, I didn't mean that!" Parfay, listen to me. I mean, since they're all free, we're just going to entrust them with some more mundane work. For example, if you help us clean the guild, run errands for us, etc., and keep their guild members busy, then the townspeople can't entrust them with work, and the townspeople will come to us to entrust it, right? ”

In this regard, Arrow only smiled bitterly and shook his head slightly: "The work commission does not mean that we have to choose between the mermaid song and the honey jar. The townsfolk will delegate it, largely because they keep it free. So they usually delegate everything they can do on their own. If we try to take their jobs, the townspeople will do their own work and won't entrust us. ”

Brad was stunned for a moment, then let out a slightly frustrated sigh.

However, this reminded Parfay, and the flower fairy flew back in front of Arrow and said, "President, President! How about we just make some of the worse and let them go to Swanstein Castle to destroy that monster again? Or let them visit the caves of the Eternal Sleep Mountains! And the Shining Forest, we've been exploring only some of the surface of the Shining Forest, right? I think there's a powerful natural magic in the depths of that forest, and we can let them investigate! ”

Arrow smiled, "Well, that's a good idea. ”

"Yes! Right! Then I'll commission it right now! Big! Let's go! ”

"Okay!"

"Give me all back!"

Arrow, feeling as if he shouldn't be joking with the pair, sighed and said—

"You can't do this kind of thing. If we do that, Viscount Norris will be holding our grip. Just thinking about how to use it, there are several of them. The simplest way to do this is to tell the townsfolk that we are using their free stage to deliberately send them to their deaths. In this way, it is equivalent to instantly turning our mermaid song into an evil guild that cares about other people's lives in order to make money. Our guild's prestige in Pelican Town will plummet immediately, so it's absolutely impossible to do so. ”

The pair's expressions, which had just looked very excited, suddenly became gloomy. But after just a few seconds, Parfay raised her hand again: "That...... Like last time, we asked some other people to commission them to do this? ”

The method is a good method, but this method has been used once, so the poisonous needle may not be detected, but Viscount Norris will definitely not be fooled a second time.

So, Arrow still smiled, analyzed the pros and cons to them, and shook his head and rejected the offer.

Brad was a little anxious and said, "This can't work, that can't work!" President, what do you think we should do next? We haven't made any money since the end of the Guild War, are we really going to be crushed to death? ”

There's really no good way to do this at the moment.

That's what Arrow is facing.

In fact, it is not impossible to really say it, he imagined this situation as early as when he was in school. If he is allowed to serve as the treasurer of the Blue Bay Empire, he will definitely introduce an anti-monopoly law as soon as possible, in which the strategy for prohibiting price wars must be well formulated!

Price wars are such a thing, although on the surface it seems to be very beneficial to the common people. Isn't it? On the one hand, seizing the market through ultra-low prices is equivalent to cheapening all the people.

But herein lies the problem, the party with strong capital can completely destroy its competitors through price wars and lose a very small part of their interests. When there are no competitors, you can completely monopolize the entire market. When the time comes, what price he plans to set for his products, how much money will the people have to spend on it! Because there are no other branches, and the commoners won't even have the right to bargain!